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AJL's Sydney Taylor Awards for Children's Literature
Get PDFThis past year, I have had the privilege of serving once again as Chairman of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee, having chaired this committee in 1983 and 1984. In the space of these few short years, I have marveled at the growth in quality of Judaica for children. Although there were certainly excellent books during my earlier stint as chairman, the 46 books that my committee and I reviewed this year showed a delightfully marked increase in quality of illustrations, uniqueness of topic, and sophistication in format
"Read for Pleasure and Learn Hebrew, Too!"
Get PDFWhen I attended an Association of Jewish Libraries/New York Metropolitan Area Day School Workshop at the Yeshiva of Flatbush in 1987, Mrs. Aviva Lapide, the librarian of the Yeshiva's Elementary School, showed a page listing one child's recreational Hebrew reading achievement from fourth through eighth grade. The grand total was 32,600 pages. Incredible, you say. I thought so, too. But it was true. The documentation-the titles of books the child had read and the number of pages of each volume-lay in front of us in black and white
Jewish Children's Literature Around the World: A Survey
Get PDFThe First International Symposium on Jew ish Children's Literature, which met for a full day on July 4, 1990, during the First International Conference of Judaica and Israeli Librarians (July 2–6, 1990), was the culmination of a year-long study on the state of children's literature with Jewish content in all countries with a Jewish population -- except for Israel and the United States, which were not included because this information is readily available. An article on children's literature in Israel, "Leading Israeli Children's Authors," by Dr. Jaqueline Shachter Weiss, appeared in Judaica Librarianship (Weiss, 1985), and a second article, ""Forty Years of Children's Literature in Israel: Genres, Trends, and Heroes," by Dr. Shlomo Harel, appears in this issue
Jewish Children's Literature: Report From America
Get PDFWhat a year 1990 was for Jewish content in children's books in America! Eric Kim mel's Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, a tale of things that go bump in the night, wonderfully illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, was named a Caldecott Honor Book. And Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry, received the Newbery Award [as well as the AJL Sydney Taylor Award-see Judaica Librarianship vol. 6, pp. 111–112—Ed.]. Of course, there were those who complained that Hershel is not really a Jewish book because goblins and ghosties are not suitable Jewish themes. Tell that to I. B. Singer! And Lowry's book, an excel lent work of great appeal, does return us to an earlier convention in children's books about the Holocaust, that of helpless Jews rescued by the courage of others. Still, what a year for Jewish content! Who could complain
Jewish Children's Literature in Czechoslovakia: A Report from the Front Lines
Get PDFWhat I am now about to narrate happened one winter day. It was freezing cold and I was in a hurry to get to the Old-New Synagogue in time for the beginning of the Sabbath. Close to the entrance to the synagogue I caught up with an elderly man. Suddenly, he slipped on an ice-patch and fell. As I was helping him get up, he muttered with a matter-of-factness typical of someone speaking his mother tongue: "Todah. Todah Rabah." At that moment, something utterly bizarre occurred to me, something that might be hard for you to understand. "That was Hebrew," I told myself. "That language really does exist.
Jewish Children's Literature in the Netherlands
Get PDFThe Jewish community in the Netherlands has existed since the seventeenth century. There have always been two communities: the larger, Ashkenazi community, and the smaller, Sephardic community. In the absence of any scientific census or survey, the number of Jews in the Netherlands is, at the moment, estimated at about 25,000. Of these, about 11,000 are considered official members of the Ashkenazi community, distributed among 42 local communities throughout the country. The three big cities in the western part of our country—Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and the Hague—account for 82% of all Ashkenazi community members. The Sephardic community has fewer than 1,000 members, and just one congregation, in Amsterdam. The membership of the liberal Jewish community (the so-called Progressive Movement)—which is enumer ated separately—is about 3,000, in six congregations. Again, Amsterdam, Rotter dam, and the Hague account for 80% of its members. At least half of all residents of Jewish origin in Holland are not affiliated with the organized Jewish community
